The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r Insane Asylum, also a State institution, has a patientslibrary of about 500 volumes, and a small collection of medical books. The City Hospital has a medical library of about 300 volumes, and afew books for nurses. The Worcester County Homoeopathic ]\Iedical Society has a library ofabout 1,000 volumes. OTHER LIBRARIES. The Worcester Natural History Society has a library of 553 reading-room is open to members of the society. There are a fewlibraries in Worcester, intended for grown-up persons, which are con-necte
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r Insane Asylum, also a State institution, has a patientslibrary of about 500 volumes, and a small collection of medical books. The City Hospital has a medical library of about 300 volumes, and afew books for nurses. The Worcester County Homoeopathic ]\Iedical Society has a library ofabout 1,000 volumes. OTHER LIBRARIES. The Worcester Natural History Society has a library of 553 reading-room is open to members of the society. There are a fewlibraries in Worcester, intended for grown-up persons, which are con-nected with Protestant religious societies in the place. The mostimportant of these, perhaps, is the Bangs Library of the old SecondParish, which contains about 1,500 volumes. This library was foundedby Edward D. Bangs, who will be remembered as having been for severalyears secretary of state in this Commonwealth. Mr. Bangs was a mem-ber of the Second Parish, and at his death left to the society the sumof $400 as a perpetual fund for a parish library, the income of which. The Worcester of 1898. 219 is to be applied to the purchase of useful books, particularly such asmay be adapted to the religious and moral improvement of the late Stephen Salisbury, also a member of the society, left to theSecond Parish the sum of $1,500, the income of which is used in buyingbooks for the Bangs Librar}-. The library of the Jail and House of Correction contains 650 is made up of stories, histories, biographies, religioiis works, and aselection of books made with especial reference to the wants of RomanCatholic prisoners. It is unnecessary to state that there are vSunday school libraries be-longing to different churches in Worcester. At the Directory officethere is a collection of 400 directories of different towns and , residents of Worcester are invited to use. Mr. Andrew P. Lundborg, the Swedish bookseller, states that thereare 1,500 Swedish books in churches and c
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